What is the origins of your teams nickname??

Dan_Martin

The Chairboys are Wycombe Wanderers, and I believe it's because of the local furniture industry. My team, Bristol City, is rather boringly called The Robins. I presume it's because of the red shirts but I don't know. Hello, by the way. This is my first post.

fly904

Correct, Well done.

danmartin9581 wrote:

My team, Bristol City, is rather boringly called The Robins.

Other west country clubs (Swindon and Cheltenham) are called the Robins aswell so I think it might be local thing. Another thing is that a few years ago (before I got banned from Ashton Gate for flicking half a trebor mint in the vicinity of a player) they had mascots running around the pitch dressed in cat outfits which always got in fights with traveling mascots, not sure if they're still there or why.

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Michael Bookatz

danmartin9581 wrote:

Hello, by the way. This is my first post.

Welcome, make yourself at home pull up a chair and just chill.... It's a great place to hang!

Henry Minute

Wolverhampton Wanderers, or Wolves as they are rather imaginatively known, get their nickname from their habit of scoffing all the pies at away grounds. Once described by a local newspaper as being "like a pack of ravening wolves", and it stuck.

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LabVIEWstuff wrote:

Ah thanks pet!

Eeee, ya a canny lad! :-D

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Duncan Edwards Jones

Grimsby are "the Cod heads" after the (now defunct) local fishing industry

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Eeee, ya a canny lad!

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Steve Dubyo

Indeed, the Woolwich Arsenal, the royal armoury. We moved from Woolwich to North London around the time of the first world war. +5 for the first mention of the Gunners in this thread!

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